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		KineticLensman 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An anecdote about backward compatibility Cue obligatory reference to the programmer archaeologists in Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky. Their job, on starships, is to safely bodge the multiple strata of software that have accreted since Mankind left Earth, centuries before.

jsrcout 4 days ago [–]

I'm pretty sure we've achieved that already, centuries ahead of schedule :-)

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